Show aas fas OTHERS SISE SEE US 8 editors in and out 0 of f Uta hand some of our readers hav hare e tak taken en us to task because we have not at been bee n an enthusiastic supporter of president mckinley and t the he war policy which he has pursued in the philippine islands if the edit orsana those of our readers would stop and reflect they could I 1 not consistently condemn us for refusing to lend aid and comfort to the american forces who are now en engaged in murdering dering the inoffensive and liberty loving filipinos the chief reasons why we are opposed to the war which is being waged upon the inhabitants of of those islands are that whenever the soldiers send letters home to their r relatives and parents they all breathe an utter contempt for the biggers which they are engaged in slaying many of these letters have found their way into the col columns of the press and without exception from the highest to the lowest the writers set forth in glowing coloia the number of digges they have succeeded in putting to even the hon fi R W young of this city was unable to rise above race p a dice w when hen wn writing ji in connection with the war in the philip philippines p ines as his letter which appeared in public print a few days ago will attest for it will be observed in perusing his letter that that gallant officer re berred to the biggers nig gers as he called them in a sneering manner in view of these filets facts no negro possessing any race pride can enter heartily into the prosecution of the war against the filipinos Pilipi Filipi aos and all enlightened negroes must necessarily arrive at the conclusion that the war is being waged solely for greed and gold and not in the in terest of suffering humanity for if it were waged in the interest of the latter the american soldiers would not turn up their noses and look down with scorn and contempt upon the filipinos Pili pinos |